2009 Asia Pacific Moth Championships

The International Moth Association of New Zealand would like to announce its title sponsor for the Asia Pacific Champs and Sprint Series being the "North Shore City Council". It is great to be working with North Shore City on this event as their knowledge of running events + their PR machine to get the crowds involved is amazing. The Asia Pacific Champs is a 9 race series over 4 days, while at the end of the day in the evening at 5pm there will be a "knockout sprint series". We are glad to announce a $5000 prize for first place for this sprint series. Hosted at Takapuna Boating Club the sprint series will be held as close as the wind and water allow from the beach, meaning an awesome speckle for the North Shore community. On top of this, the event will be providing expert comments from 470 sailor Geoff Woolley to keep the crowd in the loop, and we are looking at getting the event filmed onto a big screen on shore for really up close action! The Moth Association have already had queries from the USA, Sweden, Australia and Great Britain as well as several "new" local moth sailors joining the class for this event. With the great help of Oceanbridge Shipping a local Takapuna shipping company, the International Moth Association of NZL can also provide discounted shipping from Australia. For the Notice of Race, entries and other details about Takapuna check out Takapuna Boating Club’s website on www.takapunaboating.org.nz $200 entry will give us food after sailing, and a sport massage as well. NOR is here: http://www.takapunaboating.org.nz/index.php?id=17,178,0,0,1,0 During this time of year, the North Shore City Council have many awesome events on that tie in this event such as free open air movies, music etc, so it will make for a fun trip to New Zealand. Takapuna has great evening entertainment with great restaurants and bars, all just two minutes walk from the club! Along with the Asia Pacific Moth Champs we have the North Shore City Sprint Series, which will be televised on NZL television, this event will run over 3 evenings starting from 5pm and finishing before 7pm each evening. The winner will also walk away with a decent cash prize! There will be a briefing and note for the sprint series on the first day of racing – no NOR’s for sprint event, but please check out more for the Asia Pacific’s and sprint series here - http://www.takapunaboating.org.nz/index.php?id=17,180,0,0,1,0 OceanBridge Shipping is also supporting the Moth Class and has given a very good subsided rate for shipping from Melbourne to Auckland return – costing no more than $500aus return. Please contact Andrew Brown by the 30th of November if you need to take up this opportunity. Also contact Andrew Brown if you need to talk to Oceanbridge Shipping on any other shipping requirements you need – they will organise the best deal possible for you. Accommodation – Check these sites out for options: http://www.emerald-inn.co.nz/ http://www.takapunabeach.kiwiholidayparks.com/ http://www.spencerbyron.co.nz/ These are all within 2 minutes walk of the club therefore no car is needed! If you need more information please contact Andrew Brown andrew at forceracing dot co dot nz